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CUFF HOLDER.

No. 349,902. Patented Sept. 28, 1886.

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CHARLES H. RICHARDSON AND HIRAM A. BARKELElV, J It, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

CUFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,902, dated September 28, 1886.

| 'Application filed June 1.), 1886. Serial No. 205,601. (No model.)

To all whom it may none/arm 2 Be it known that we, CHARLES I'IENRY RICHARDSON and HIRAM A. BARKELEW, Jr., citizens of the United States, residing at Los 5 Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a. new and useful Improvement in Guff- Holders, of which the following is a specification. The object of our invention is to produce a small, neat, and convenient device which can be made at very small expense, and can be permanently attached to the coat-sleeve, and by means of which the cuff can be adjusted and held so as to project from the end of the coat-sleeve as far as may be desired.

Various devices have heretofore been employed for the purpose of holding cuffs; but many of them are so constructed and attached that the end of the cuff must be inserted into the clasp. Thus a long clasp must be employed if much latitude for adjustment be given.

The accompanying drawingsillustrate our invention.

Figure 1 is an isometrical View of our cuffholder. Fig. 2 is a section of a cuff and coatsleeve and our holder, showing the mannerin which the cuff is secured.

A is the plate of the holder. 13 is the tongue. P P are perforations through which the thread is passed in sewing the holder to the sleeve. F is the cuff, and S is the sleeve of the coat or other outer garment. The plate and tongue have a general curvature through- 3 5 out their length corresponding to the contour of the coat-sleeve. The ends of the plate are curved outward slightly, as shown at D, so as to press into the clothof the coat-sleeve and have a smooth surface therewith, and the end of the tongue is curved inward, as at the point marked by B, so that the edge of the cuff can be easily inserted between it and the plate.

In manufacturing our holder we cut thin sheets of spring metal into small oblong pieces of the desired size. The metal is roughened on both sides by indentations, as

shown in the middle of the holder in Fig. 1, pressed into the metal, and the plate is perv forated with the holes P l. The tongue B is 5 cut from the plate upon three sides, and the tongue and plate are then given the curvatures shown in the drawings, a part of the free portion of the spring being brought into close juxtaposition with the plate, so that when the 5 cuff is placed between the spring and the plate it will be retained by the pressure of the spring.

.It will be seen that the cost of these holders is very slight, owing to the simplicity of 6 construction, and when in use one is permanently sewed into each sleeve of the garment, so that the garment will always be ready to receive and retain the ends. The curvature of the plate allows the holder to be 6 attached to the sleeve with the tongue at right angles to the axis of the sleeve, so that the edge of the cuff can be inserted between the tongue and the plate at any point along the edge of the cuff, thus giving great latitude for 71' adjustment, whereby the cuff can be moved in and out of the coat-sleeve almost the entire length of the cuff. It will be observed that a degree of utility will be secured, though the plate and tongue are not roughened, as the 7 pressure of the spring will usually be sufficient to retain the cuff. This form of construction allows the holder to be used whether the cuff is or is not attached to the shirtsleeve, as a slight turn of the cuff upon the Si arm is all that is necessary to secure. or release the cuff, whether it be buttoned to the shirt-sleeve or not, and the holder is therefore adapted for use upon ladies and gcntlcmens garments indiscriminately. 8

Ne are aware that cuff-holders formed of a thin plate of metal with a spring-tongue attached thereto, have been heretofore provided with perforations and sewed to the coatsleeve, as shown in patent to WVickersham, go No. 234,100, dated November 2, 1880; but

we are not aware that a cuff-holder has heretofore been constructed in the form and manner set forth, whereby the cuff is allowed so reat a range of adjustment, and whereby such plate, A, and the curved and roughened tongue :0 leapness of construction and such conven- B, constructed, arranged, and combined as nee of operation are secured. set forth.

Now, having described our invention what e claim as new, and desire to secure b y Let- :rs Patent, is-

A cuff-holder consisting of a single sheet of Witnesses:

uring metal having the following parts, as JAS. R. TOWNSEND, at forth: aperforated and roughened curved WV. GILBERT. 

